Sennheiser PC37X randomly goes bad after disconnecting the cable ?
Greetings, Yesterday I was using my headset like normal with my macbook, just listening to music and on a call with people like usual, and the headset was perfectly fine. The stock wire that came with the headset is extremely long and yesterday it annoyed me very much that it kept getting tangled with itself, so I decided to see if the cable is replaceable. I pulled out the cable from the headset and saw the adapter, and looked online for a replacement. Upon plugging it back in, the audio sounded extremely muffled and washed out. Im not sure what I did wrong to make it mess up like that as I've always taken good care of it, ive had it for about 2 years and its always just been chilling on my desk, but anywho I thought the cable just went bad and ordered a replacement. The replacement came, and the issue is still persistant, so I am not sure what the issue is I've tried multiple different headsets and the issue is not with the port, and I also tried it with my windows laptop and...
Apr 23, 2024
Secondly: the only data (I would call it anecdotal at best) I have available is product pricing which is readily available to the public
As I shop for gear on massdrop, amazon and elsewhere for anything from DACs to headphones and everything in between, I've noticed a pattern in pricing: for any item certain range most, if not all, vendors sell a product at nearly the same price (be it ~$199 DACs or ~$350 amps or ~$500 speakers or ~$900 headphones). To me this raises red flags. In a competitive, efficient market vendors should try to compete and undercut each other, not settling on very tight price ranges. The fact presently there are several headphones at $899-and-change and at other other products at prices mentioned above scream of unintentional price fixing: w/o any malice or collusion among them, vendors choose to not undercut each other. i,e.: vendor A releases product P at price X, vendor B releases competing product Q at price X, then vendor C and vendor D follow suit whereas in an efficient market, vendor B would price Q at X - 5% (just as en example) in order to get customers looking their way. This lack of competitive efficiency hurts the consumer badly and if I'm right in my feeling/sensing we could be overpaying for the products we buy-- which are already quite pricey :(